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That’s a weird thing to say when Lauri actually played pretty well. Disappeared at times (as always), but had flashes and definitely didn’t “absolutely suck”. WCJ and Coby White absolutely sucked. Coby’s defense, in particular, stood out as being the worst of all the bad defense that was “being played” out there. I’m not too worried or making any judgements until at least a couple months in. Tough not having played in almost a year, having a new HC, and having a drastically shortened training camp. Pat Williams looked pretty good out there at times.

Harden sure does enjoy his strip clubs. I once saw a graph depicting a correlation between his level of play and the quality of strip clubs in the road city he was playing in. Fascinating stuff.

Got it, thought there were 1-2, 3 win teams out there They can feel free to keep winning though, because Carolina is sitting at #4 right now and I wouldn't mind moving higher. Big game for Cincy vs Houston next week. I imagine the Bengals will be successful at tanking that, but if not, a whole slew of teams will jump them.

Yep a 10-6 team (possibly even 11-5) is going to miss the playoffs in a year 7 teams from each conference get in.

In a trade you don't pick up the guaranteed salary hits, just pro-rations from bonuses. So theres 5M in guaranteed 2021 (4) and 2022 (1) the new team picks up. Bears just eat the signing bonus pro-ration from signing bonus from the restructure. In a cut, the Bears eat that pro ration and the guarantee base salaries. I'm admittedly starting to go on a bit of a "the base salaries are all that matters crusade.". The signing bonuses are all sunk costs and you don't want to fall into a sunk cost fallacy with your decision making. So even moves that people say "cost you" cap space really are net savings in a big picture. The cap hits year over year are pretty fungible so there's almost always ways to move around dead hits without increasing guarantees. Basically if you can get out of unearned cash payments, these moves always save cap. If you cant get out of new cash payments, they don't. So if he's traded (rather than cut), the new team takes the cap hit on guaranteed but not-paid-yet money, right? That would be his 2021 salary, $1m of his 2022 salary, and a 2022 $4m roster bonus. Also, if Trubisky manages to stay healthy and play these last two games, we avoided any of his escalator clauses. Was just looking at his escalators. Foles has to be pretty close to that 50% playing time. He has 7 starts and a quarter of the Falcons game. It’s based on snaps so that could already be pretty close to 50% when all said and done. Best to just make sure Nick doesn’t get anymore snaps this year. Edit: just looked it up. Foles has taken 488/924 snaps (52.8% YTD). 53 more Foles-less snaps and were good.

And what do you do with Foles in this resign Mitch scenario? Keep him as a backup along with drafting a day 2 QB?

Yea, I'm like at 12/2 range tops and that's assuming he plays well the next two weeks. Same, and even that feels like a sentimental overpay. *looks at what it would cost to get rid of Foles* God *dammit* pace For some reason I totally thought we set up his contract to basically be a 1 year deal with no cap hit after this year. Boy, was I wrong. What the actual horsefeathers?!?

What’s the scenario with a Cardinals win? Which they will, because the Eagles are crap.

He’s been terrific as a rookie and is a big loss vs a team with 2 stud WRs.

Wendell Carter looked like he does not belong in the NBA.

This is honestly worse than losing any one player from the organization to me. This sucks so, so, so much.

Wouldn’t mind Brad Hand. Hard no on this piece of trash.

Nagy needs to give up playcalling or be fired for me.

Gotta be Hinch. I doubt they make the move unless there’s a guy they were really eyeing and had to have. They also mentioned recent postseason success as a quality they were looking for. If Hinch is the guy, it’s a good move pending how they deal with the cheating PR shitstorm.

PFF grades from last week in?

Yeah I don’t blame Willy at all. Was really surprised to see him try for home when they showed where he was at when Joyce got to the ball. I thought for sure Willy ran through the stop sign.

Now if we actually move on, we don’t have the option of starting Yu in Game 1 to potentially come back and pitch a Game 5. Not that Ross would do that anyway.

This is bizarre.

Agree with all that. I’d love to see these guys with an actual NBA head coach. I’m guessing they give it at least a year before making any big changes to the roster. Yes, please on LaMelo.

Yep. Agree with everyone else. I’d be okay with it if you shorten the regular season and then make every playoff series 7 games. But that won’t happen.

Just relax and enjoy the Yu starts.

Yu + Cubs offense taking good ABs Is BRUTAL. That was...not enjoyable.

Why not replace Almora with random really fast guy? A situation pinch runner would probably be more beneficial than the “defensive replacement” value he’s providing.

I don’t really understand why the Marlins are having to put together a random collection of minor leaguers but the Cardinals get to just postpone games. Make the fucks play with all minor leaguers or forfeit.

KB Our RD sucks for a 9-2 team